Reclaiming Forgotten Cities - Turning cities from vulnerable spaces to healthy places for people [RECLAIM]

RECLAIM是一个创新网络，旨在解决复杂问题，创建可持续、健康、宜居的城市系统，抵御气候相关危害。RECLAIM将成为一个持续交流和知识转化的包容性平台。我们的网络将连接和改造“被遗忘的城市”，使其成为环境和经济发展的先锋，采用参与式方法和绿蓝灰基础设施（GBGI）来应对社会和环境挑战。我们对RECLAIM的愿景是创建一个多学科和跨部门的网络，将多个领域的科学专业知识（工程、生态、社会科学）、艺术家、设计师、商业、城市当局、政策制定者和社区团体聚集在一起。RECLAIM将作为一个中心，迅速传播GBGI设计的最佳实践，这些设计考虑了社会和经济背景，以及当地居民的需求，以及设计多功能GBGI解决方案的最新科学证据。该网络将制定共同的语言、目标和方法，以简化GBGI的沟通、传播和可复制性。它将关注被遗忘的城市，特别是在GBGI的实施和评估中大多被忽视的较小和/或经济上处于不利地位的城市地区和社区，并使用参与式方法使它们成为解决方案的一部分。地理范围是泛英国，包括一些已经建立良好实践的大城市（如利物浦、格拉斯哥、纽卡斯尔），以及英格兰东北部、威尔士北部、英格兰中部和东南部的小城市和不太富裕的地区，以测试、共同设计、参与和学习他们最弱势的社区。学科范围旨在桥梁工程、建模、大气化学、水文学（包括海洋）、绿色基础设施、城市艺术、城市设计和社会科学（包括科学和技术研究）。该网络的核心目标是通过将社会正义问题和生态质量纳入城市中多功能灰色、绿色和蓝色空间的设计中，以解决升级议程，作为确保可持续和适应未来挑战的宜居城市的手段。它将通过一系列网络行动实现六个关键目标：1)建立一个新的多学科网络，分享最佳实践并发挥研究领导作用；2)进行水平扫描和知识综合，找出关键的知识差距，并提出解决这些差距的建议；3)进行可行性研究，全面评估新的和现有的GBGI，并解决知识空白；4)与公众一起设计、参与和学习，增进对绿蓝灰空间更广泛益处的理解，教育下一代如何使我们的城市成为更可持续、更健康的居住地；5)培养一批新的决策者和学者，将多学科思维融入未来的GBGI设计中，结合基于地点的方法和适合规模的功能干预措施；6)通过旨在分享城市规划和绿色和蓝色空间设计最佳做法的活动，传播最佳做法，加快吸收最佳做法。这背后是贯穿所有网络活动的四个交叉主题：多功能和系统思维，将美学和人们的需求嵌入GBGI设计，升级和超越，以及利用现有的倡议。

RECLAIM is an innovative network to address complex problems and create sustainable, healthy, and liveable urban systems, resilient to climate-related hazards. RECLAIM will become an inclusive platform for continual exchange, and knowledge translation. Our network will connect and transform the 'forgotten cities' to be at the vanguard for environmental and economic advancement using participatory methods and green-blue-grey infrastructure (GBGI) to address societal and environmental challenges. Our vision for RECLAIM is to create a multidisciplinary and cross-sectoral network, which brings together multiple areas of scientific expertise (engineering, ecology, social science), artists, designers, business, city authorities, policymakers and community groups. RECLAIM will act as a hub to rapidly disseminate best practice on GBGI design which takes account of the social and economic context, and the needs of local residents as well as the latest scientific evidence on designing multi-functional GBGI solutions. The network will develop common language, goals and methodology to ease the communication, spreading, and replicability of GBGI. It will focus on the forgotten cities, especially the smaller and/or economically disadvantaged urban areas and communities which have mostly been ignored in the implementation and assessment of GBGI, and making them part of the solution using a participatory approach. The geographical scope is pan-UK, covering some larger cities where good practice is already established (e.g. Liverpool, Glasgow, Newcastle) with smaller cities and less well-off areas in the northeast of England, north Wales, the Midlands and south-east England to test, co-design, engage and learn with their most disadvantaged communities. Disciplinary scope aims to bridge engineering, modelling, atmospheric chemistry, hydrology including marine, green infrastructure, urban art, urban design, and social sciences including science and technology studies. The network has a central aim of addressing the levelling up agenda by incorporating both social justice issues and ecological quality into the design of multi-functional grey, green and blue space in cities, proposed as the means to ensure liveable cities which are sustainable and resilient to the future challenges. It will tackle this through six key objectives, which are delivered through a series of network actions: 1) Build a new multi-disciplinary network to share best practice and act as research leaders; 2) Undertake horizon scanning and knowledge synthesis to identify key gaps in knowledge and make recommendations to address them; 3) Conduct feasibility studies to comprehensively assess new and existing GBGI, and to address knowledge gaps; 4) Design, engage and learn with the public, fostering improved understanding of the wider benefits of green-blue-grey space, and educating the next generation on making our cities more sustainable and healthier places to live; 5) Train a new cohort of decision-makers and academics to embed multi-disciplinary thinking into future GBGI design, incorporating a mix of place-based approaches and scale-appropriate functional interventions; 6) Accelerate uptake of best practices by dissemination through activities designed to share best practice on urban planning and green and blue space design. Underlying this are four cross-cutting themes which thread through all the network activities: Multifunctionality and systems thinking, Embedding aesthetics and people's needs into GBGI design, Upscaling and outscaling, and Capitalising on existing initiatives.